Received: 20 August 2026

QUESTION:

May I make a formal request to yourselves for a full and complete application for a current copy of the accounts held by PFEW in the interests of “openness and accountability”.

Responded: 25 August 2026

RESPONSE:

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request below, dated 20^th August 2026.

By law the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) is required to provide a response to you within twenty (20) working days of your request, which would be by no later than Friday, 18^th September 2026. 

However, we are able to provide you with the last published PFEW accounts, that can be found on the Federation’s website (PolFed.org) that can be found directly here:

pfew_financial_statements_fy23_final_signed.pdf

Information relating to the accounts for each individual branch can be found from page 26 (p. 26) onwards.

PFEW’s accounts and the 43 branch accounts for 2024 and 2025 are due for future publication and as such are being withheld under section 22 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, which states that

(1) Information is exempt information if –

(a) The information is held by the public authority with a view to its publication, by the authority or any other person, at some future date (whether determined or not).

We apologise for not being able to provide you with this information currently. However, we are expecting both the PFEW audited accounts for our financial years to be published soon. Once they have been audited and signed off they will be published on our website.